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CaNsA
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PostPosted: 23:43 - 10 Apr 2016    Post subject: RIP - Mr Nice. Reply with quote
'Mr Nice' Howard Marks dies aged 70

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/10/howard-marks-dies-aged-70

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oldpink
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PostPosted: 13:03 - 11 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
will be sadly missed
I had the good fortune to have known him

RIP Mr Nice
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PostPosted: 13:12 - 11 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sad way to go, and not that old.
I remember reading his book when it came out. Clearly an intelligent guy who could tell a good story, I always wondered how much of it was true and how much was embellished to sell a book.
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PostPosted: 13:48 - 11 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
from what I gather from a couple of chats with him its mostly based on facts without a lot of hamming it up for the book
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Pigeon
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PostPosted: 21:24 - 11 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Mr Nice was our bible Very Happy


RIP Albi

.... scrap that. rave on!
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PostPosted: 21:47 - 11 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
OK I had to google him.... and still haven't got a clue who he was
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mentalboy
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PostPosted: 00:22 - 12 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
oldpink wrote:
will be sadly missed
I had the good fortune to have known him

RIP Mr Nice


My FB feed has blown up with pictures of Mr Marx posing with my friends of the toking kind - he seems to have posed with every 'head in the land (and, bizarrely enough, looks the same in every one of the pics, including yours!!) Wink
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PostPosted: 19:45 - 12 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yeah, I read his book too, good read. RIP
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Nash GT
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PostPosted: 23:15 - 12 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Fantastic book, RIP
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Chuffin Nora
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PostPosted: 02:38 - 13 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
More laid-back now than ever.

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PostPosted: 02:53 - 13 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
First book was awesome, rest of the books less so and the film was even worse. Laughing

I'm sure the guy was great bloke regardless of some of the organisations he worked with. Laughing
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PostPosted: 02:56 - 13 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
If you liked the Mr Nice book then Grass by Phil Sparrowhawk is even better. Thumbs Up

Snowblind by Robert Sabbag is also a good read.
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Nash GT
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PostPosted: 03:20 - 13 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ste wrote:
If you liked the Mr Nice book then Grass by Phil Sparrowhawk is even better. Thumbs Up

Snowblind by Robert Sabbag is also a good read.


Excellent, will get them ordered Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 15:35 - 13 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Reefer Men is another good read Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 16:48 - 13 Apr 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
oldpink wrote:
from what I gather from a couple of chats with him its mostly based on facts without a lot of hamming it up for the book


the only thing that sounded made up to me, was the chat he had with another Welshman as he was ejected from America after being released from prison.

I rather suspect that was so through this made up 3rd person he could in composite form say what he thought about the USA?
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